HTML input from a form to a variable and out as original HTML

Fructose

Heres the problem.

I have a form with a textarea, in it users can type text/html. the data is passed to a php script to a variable

$dataone

When I use

echo "$dataone";

it will output the HTML, however, if there is a link like <a href="http://www.mysite.com">Click here</A> and you move your mouse over the link it shows up as :

[url]http://www.mysite.com[/url]"http://www.mysite.com"

any idea how to correct this?

pohopo

try this...

echo htmlentities("<b>do not bold</b>")

Fructose

Not quite what I am looking for, the output looks like this now

<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">Google</a>

I want it to display just the working link.

Fructose

Ok, I got it to work but there has to be an easier way than this. Basically I took the html/text from the textarea on the previous form and put it into a variable called $datatwo. I then create a .php file with $content = "$datatwo";

Next I include that file I just made and echo $content and everything gets displayed correctly...odd...there has to be an easier way to do this.

$rand = time();

$dbfinal = "<?php \n \$content = \"$datatwo\";\n?>"; /*$datatwo is the data from the previous forms textarea*/

$endit = ".php";
$filename = "../news/$rand$endit";
$fp = fopen($filename, "a");
$write = fputs($fp, $dbfinal);
	fclose($fp);

include($filename);

echo "<p class=main4>$content</p>";

This will actually display the HTML and Text like a normal webpage now, but there really has to be an easier way. Any ideas?

barryhinrichs

Its Generally not a good idea to allow users to enter html tags into your textbox. A malicious user could possible cause problems with the way your page displays... the striptags() fuction will remove any html tags.

good luck.

www.barretonline.com

Fructose

I am not allowing everyone to use this, it is only an administrative funtion that myself and one other will have access to.